about the gay/lesbian/bi tv characters - did you only want examples from US tv? from what we get imported to the UK: there's Doyle in ER, there was another hospital program which i caught once, but featured a mother who was in a lesbian relationship Sandra Berhard's character in Rosanne Melrose Place, which I've never seen, has a gay character oh, yes, Frasier has a gay character as well who appears occasionally, Giff i think is the name there's a number of example from UK tv - let me know if those are of interest ------------------- Aylish Wood Department of American and Canadian Studies University of Nottingham Nottingham NG7 2RD ---- Online resources for film/TV studies may be found at ScreenSite http://www.tcf.ua.edu/screensite